Joaquin Blake y Joyes

Joaquin Blake y Joyes (19 August 1759-27 April 1827) was a Spanish army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Peninsular War.

Biography
Of both Irish and Spanish descent, Blake joined the Spanish grenadiers in the Siege of Gibraltar in 1780 and the conquest of Minorca in 1783. In 1793 he served in the French Revolutionary Wars and was wounded at San Lorenzo de la Muga in 1794. He participated in the Peninsular War and defeated the French at the Battle of Albuera in 1811 but surrendered to Louis Gabriel Suchet in Valencia in 1812. He was made Chief Engineer of the Spanish Royal Army in 1815.